Tuesday, November 22, 2016
In-Memory OLTP in Azure SQL Database improves performance and introduces cost savings for transaction processing, data ingestion, and transient data scenarios.
Thursday, November 17, 2016
Earlier today we published the paper "Total Cost of (Non) Ownership (TCO) of NoSQL databases in 2016." comparing TCO of hosting OSS NoSQL databases on-premises and Azure Virtual Machines, and using managed NoSQL database as a service like Azure DocumentDB.
Wednesday, November 16, 2016
We're excited to introduce a public preview of the DocumentDB Emulator, which provides a local development experience for the Azure DocumentDB service.
Monday, November 14, 2016
This is the first edition of Data Platform Week in review covering Cortana Intelligence Suite, SQL Server and R Server.
Wednesday, November 9, 2016
In-Memory technologies are now generally available in Azure SQL Database, to optimize performance of transaction processing, analytics, as well as hybrid transactional and analytical workloads (HTAP).
Thursday, November 3, 2016
Over the past couple weeks the DocumentDB team released a number of improvements to developer experience and capabilities of DocumentDB. We added a new quick start experience helping you to get up and running with a working app on DocumentDB in seconds. We launched a preview for backup/restore and inbound firewall capabilities, as well as released numerous runtime improvements including expanded support for geospatial types.
Wednesday, November 2, 2016
We are excited to expand support of Bletchley v1 into the Azure Marketplace and add many new partners to our growing ecosystem.
Monday, October 31, 2016
Azure SQL Database now supports backups stored in your own Azure Backup Service Vault. This allows you easily extend the built-it retention period from 35 days to up to 10 years.
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
We are pleased to announce the public preview of Microsoft Azure Analysis Services, the latest addition to our data platform in the cloud.
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
We are pleased to announce an update to our Bletchley v1 infrastructural substrate to address your feedback and add additional functionality.